A/N: This one is A LOT longer
Derek's POV
I was so happy when Penelope said she would come to the party. All I could think about was the party and Penelope. I went over and picked up Reid and went to Hotch's place before the party even started, to help him set up stuff. Once we were done it was just about 8 when people started arriving. The music was playing loud, but not loud enough for the neighbors to hear. I was the one who was answering the door in the beginning. The house was getting packed when I heard a faint knock on the front door, I ran over to open it. It was the three ladies. JJ, Emily, and Penelope. They all walked in and I immediately got hard when I saw Penelope. She was wearing a pair of really short shorts with her gymnastics T-shirt and a pair of converse. I assumed pretty much everyone was there so I walked away from the door to find Hotch.
When I found him he asked, "Derek, what's wrong?"
I looked up and said, "Penelope's here."
He looked at me confused. "Yes, I invited her…" He says.
"Did you see what she was wearing?" I asked.
"No," he said. Hotch and I turned around when we heard a bunch of the football players hooting and hollering, Penelope just walked in.
"You see what I mean?" I asked Hotch.
"Mmhhmm. I gotcha." he responded.
She was standing over next to the wall when one of the football players, Aiden Montgomery, came up to her and started talking. I didn't hear what they were saying but she looked unsure of something, next thing I know he grabbed her hand and started pulling upstairs.
Hotch looked at me, "Go follow her, make sure nothing happens." He said. I started walking up the stairs a little further behind them. This guy was the biggest player in this school. Bigger than me. I couldn't have him hurt Penelope. And I still might have a chance with her, I can't have him ruin it. Aiden took her to the nearest room, the door was cracked, I stood there watching, hoping they didn't see me.
"Aiden, what are we doing in here?" I heard Penelope ask.
"Whatever we want to do, baby." I heard him say as he came up behind her, kissing her neck. She turned around and put her hands against his chest and tried to push him away but he grabbed a hold of her wrist walking her backward until the back of her knees hit the bed, she fell backward and he pinned her arms above her head.
"Aiden get off of me!" She started to yell. He kissed her to muffle the sound. She started to buck and kick. He held her down and kissed her again, he stuck his tongue in her mouth and she bit down and he let out a little yelp.
He sat back up, "You Bitch!" He yelled. And backhanded her across the face. I couldn't sit here and watch anymore. I stormed in the room, grabbed Aiden by the back of his shirt and flung him to the floor and started punching him until I heard a little sob. I looked at Penelope who was sitting on the bed.
I got up off of him and went over to her. "Are you alright Penelope?" I asked her.
She nodded her head. "How about we go back downstairs and get you something to drink?" I asked. She nodded her head again. I took her hand and helped her off the bed.
We started to walk out the door when I stopped her. "Let me look at your cheek." I said softly. She turned towards me and I saw a small bruise forming on her cheek bone.
I stroked her cheek and wiped her tears away. "You have beautiful eyes, Penelope." I say.
"Tha-thank you." She stutters.
"Let's go get a drink." I said. We walked down stairs and into the kitchen. I got a cup and filled it up and handed it to her. She took the cup from my hand and took a small sip.
"Why don't we go sit down?" I said as I took her hand and led her to a sofa in the corner.
"I'm sorry about earlier" I said in an apologetic tone.
She looked at me "Yeah, it's no big deal, I'm fine." She said through a fake smile.
"I sure hope so." I said back.
************Time Lapse**************
Penelope's POV
The party was almost over. All of us were cleaning up when Derek came up next to me. "Hey, JJ is taking Reid home, so I was wondering if you would want to ride with me." He asked.
"Uh, sure Derek, I would love that." After I got done cleaning we all gathered in the living room.
"Hey, my parents are gone for the whole weekend, and my brothers are out of town too, you guys wanna come over and have a movie night tomorrow?" I asked. I got several yes and of course.
"Ok, how about 5:00?" I asked.
"That works." JJ says. I nod my head then we head for the front door. We step out onto the porch and head for the vehicles. Derek opens the passenger door and I smile and climb in. He shuts the door and goes over to his door and climbs in too. When we arrived at my house he got out and opened my door. I started walking up to my door and he followed me.
I stopped on the front porch and turned towards him. "Thank you, for tonight Derek." I said with a grin.
"Anytime. I'll see you tomorrow." He said back. I opened my door and he walked back to his car. I went inside and got ready for bed. I couldn't wait until tomorrow.
**************Time Lapse************
When I woke up this morning immediately started to clean. Before I knew it, it was time for the rest of them to come over. There was a knock on the door. I walked over and opened it.
It was JJ and Emily. "Hey, come in." I said stepping out of the doorway. They walked in and sat on the couch.
We started talking and laughing when there was another knock at the door. "I got it!" I shouted. I ran to the door and opened it.
It was Derek, Hotch, and Spencer. "Hey come in."
We all walked back into the living room and sat down. "So what's first?" I asked.
"Scary!" They all said in unison.
"Ok, Texas chainsaw massacre, it is." I said. They all nodded. I put it in and went to go get my blanket. When I came back downstairs JJ and Spencer were on one couch cuddled up and Emily and Hotch were on the sofa and Derek was on the other couch. I went and sat next to him. He looked down at me and smiled. I smiled back. I turned off the lamp next to us and Hotch and Emily did the same. It was completely dark in the living room, all except for the T.V. The movie started and I felt Derek scoot closer.
He leaned down next to my ear, "Is this ok?" He asked. I looked at him and smiled as I shook my head yes. And scooted closer to him. We were watching the movie, it was quiet and all of a sudden there was a loud noise. I, JJ, and Emily all jumped. When I jumped I felt Derek wrap his arm around me and pull me closer. I smiled and cuddled in closer. I could feel his breath on my neck.
The movie soon ended and I turned towards the others. "You all want to order pizza?" I asked. They all shook their heads yes. I ordered a pizza and twenty minutes later it arrived. We all sat at the kitchen table and ate and joked around.
When we were done we cleaned up and walked back into the living room. "Okay, it's pretty late, we are going to head home." JJ said as we stepped out on the front porch.
Derek turned to me and smiled. "Well, I'll see you Monday for our tutor session in the library." He said.
"Ok, I'll see you then." I said with a smile. I walked back inside and sat on the couch. The rest of the weekend went by fairly quickly. On Monday I woke with a smile on my face. I couldn't wait until it was time to tutor Derek. The school day went by fast and soon I was walking down to the library. I sat down at a nearby table and started checking things on my phone.
A couple minutes later Derek sat down next to me. "Hey, how'd football practice go?" I asked.
"Hi, it went good." He replied.
"Okay, so Mrs. Strauss said you need help in two areas." I said. He shook his head.
"Which ones?" I asked.
"Math and ELA." He replied. I shook my head and started typing.
"Okay." I said with a smile. "Why don't we start with math?" I said as I pulled out my math book and set it on the table.
"So what are you having trouble with?" I asked.
"Well, I'm mostly having trouble with equations. I know how to start them but then I get kind of confused." He says.
"Okay." I said getting out a piece of paper and I wrote down an equation on it.
"I know you have to do the opposite sign." He looked at the paper and put his pen to it. "This side cancels out, and this side equals ten." He says, I nod my head. "Here's where I become really confused." He said shyly.
"Okay, since you have ten on this side, you need to bring the equal side down and then the number with the variable, and then you take the number that's with the variable, which in this case is two and divide that by the other number there, which is ten, and then your variable equals 5." I say.
"Is that it?" He asked.
I nod my head yes. "Yep, five is the answer." I said. I wrote a couple more problems on the paper for him to solve and when he was done I checked them. He seemed to be getting the idea of the concept. I wrote down some harder problems and he seemed to be doing well on those too.
"How about we work on ELA." I said. He shook his head yes.
"Ok, so what do you need help with the most?" I asked
"constructive response questions." He said.
"Okay, how you want to do these is you want to restate the question, answer it, and then pull two quotes from the text to support your answer." I said.
I pulled out a worksheet with example questions and answers on it and started highlighting things. "OK, this is how you restate the question." I said highlighting it in yellow. "This part is where you answer the actual question." I said highlighting in green. "And this is an example of the quotes you pull out of the text to support your answer." I said highlighting in pink. She shook his head. "This is a note sheet you can keep." I said handing him the paper.
Right when we were about to finish up Jordan and Tamara walked by.
"Derek, what are you doing talking with, her." Jordan said.
"Jordan, she's just tutoring me." He said looking up at her.
"I'm sure." She responded kinda snarky as she walked away.
"I'm sorry about her." Derek said sincerely.
"Its fine, I'm used to it." I say packing up my things.
"That's it for today, hopefully we won't have any distractions tomorrow." I say.
"Wait Penelope, maybe we could do our tutoring session at your place tomorrow." He replied nervously. I smiled and shook my head.
"Yeah that sounds great, just come over to my place after football practice tomorrow." I responded. He shook his head walked away.
I smiled and walked to JJ's locker. "Hey Garcie." She greeted me.
"Hey JJ." I said back.
"How'd tutoring Derek go?" She asked.
"Pretty good until Jordan and Tamara showed up." I replied.
"Oh, and how did that go?" She asked.
"Well, they just asked Derek why he would be talking to someone like me." I said looking down.
"What a bitch." She replied.
"You're telling me, but things got a little better." I said.
"How so?" She asked me.
"Well, Derek asked me after they left if we could just do the tutoring session at my place after football practice tomorrow." I said with a smile.
"Oh really?" She said. I shook my head and we started walking to our cars.
"I'll see you tomorrow." JJ said before she got into her car and drove away. I was really anxious for the next day to come.
When I got home I could not stop smiling. "What makes you so happy?" My mother, Monica, asked.
"Oh nothing." I say leading on.
"Are you sure, because your face says different?" She asked again.
"Oh OK, mom can Derek Morgan come over tomorrow a little after 5:00?" I asked.
"Why?" She asked leading on.
"Because I need to tutor him, we would do it in the library but we can't concentrate in there." I said.
"Well I get off at 7:00 and your father goes to work at 4:00, so I don't know about that Pen." She responded.
"Mom, please, all were gonna be doing is sitting at the kitchen table while I tutor him, he doesn't like me like that. And besides I'm not his type." I say gesturing to the table.
"OK, fine." She said. I smiled and gave her a kiss on the cheek. I ran to my room and started playing music and playing my online games. I was very eager for the next day. Later that night after we all got finished with dinner I headed up to bed. I gave my mom and dad a kiss and then walked up the stairs to my bedroom. I shut the door and climbed into bed. Before I knew it I was drifting off to sleep. When I awoke the next morning I started to get ready and then I headed downstairs. I grabbed my keys and headed for my car.
When I arrived at school I walked inside the building to find Hotch and Emily. "Hey guys." I greeted them.
"Hey Pen." Replied Emily.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Nothing much, so I heard you and Derek have big plans." She said with a smile.
"If you consider tutoring him, big plans then yeah we do." I said sarcastically.
"It's more important where you're doing it." She responded.
"Em-," I started to say before she cut me off.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you tutoring him at your place." She said.
"That's true." I say.
"Exactly!" She shouted.
"It's not like that." I say trying to explain it to her.
"Whatever you say." She said. I start laughing and then walk away.